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Subject: Re: Running a preprocessor from GPS?
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Date: 2015-07-29T17:10:53-07:00
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On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 1:51:50 AM UTC+2, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> On 07/29/2015 03:32 PM, EGarrulo wrote:
> > 
> > If Ada offered runtime typing by means of a type `Any`, then `Printf`
> > could be trivially written as:
> > 
> >    type Printf_Arguments is array (Positive range <>) of Any;
> >    
> >    procedure Printf (Format : String; Arguments : Printf_Arguments);
> 
> Luckily nothing this horrible will ever make it into Ada.

Who knows?  But since the realm of Ada is limited to embedded
development, it makes sense that flexible formatted output will never
be a priority.